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| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ... |
| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Captain Arne Lewick doubles as the fire station mechanic. Smoking a pipe, he is working at a lathe. |
| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sittin... |
| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Lt. Henry Anderson (left) and Capt. Erwin Beale (right) waiting for details as Fireman O.E. Vallem is receiving a phone report from East Side firemen. Vall... |
| Date: | 07 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Firemen practice demonstrating the rescue of people from a burning building with an aerial ladder. They are preparing for the Police and Fireman's show at ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1957 |
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| Description: | A fire chief is surveying the damage from a kitchen fire at 906 East Mifflin Street in Madison, while the fire fighters are sweeping up with brooms. |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Explosion and fire in the 200 block of North Bassett Street caused the deaths of William and Gladys McGrath and destruction of five buildings. Firemen are ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Wayne "Warpy" Austin. He has been a Madison fireman for 26 years, presently assigned to the No. 5 Company at Division Street and Atwood Avenue.... |
| Date: | 02 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street. |
| Date: | 04 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Eldon Fremming, Wausau, recently sworn in as the new state deputy fire marshall. |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | A gas explosion demolishes the Kellor's Store and Garage near Oregon. Oregon firemen and neighbors are shown trying to salvage shoes that were part of the ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of Diane Schmitt's Sun Prairie school's third grade are greeted by Volunteer Fire Department chief Ben Blaschka during a tour of the fire station. ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Dan Watson, left, director of the Vilas Park Zoo, and fireman Don Annen attempting to capture two rhesus monkeys in the tree tops. Annen is holding a tran... |
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